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SB167b Reports a suspected phishing message in MS Teams

Reporting suspicious messages in MS Teams notifies IT or security teams that employees are being targeted by cyber attackers. Employees who report suspicious messages in MS Teams reduce organisation's information security risk by ensuring that appropriately trained people can take steps to minimise the harm the potential cybercriminals can do.


Why is it important?

By reporting suspected phishing messages in Teams to the right people, potential attacks can be mitigated before they become a reality. This prevents others from falling for a phishing scam that could lead to account compromise and increased information security risk.

Priority Tier

Behaviours in SebDB are ranked by their impact on risk. Tier 1 behaviours have the biggest impact, Tier 4 behaviours the least.

Tier 1

Risk Mitigated

Account Compromise

Account Compromise

Account compromise happens when unauthorised people access them.

Further reading

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/tips/ST04-014
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/phishing-scams/report-scam-email

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